'Love' in the Bible

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,

'But I have against thee: That thy first love thou didst leave!

I have known thy works, and love, and ministration, and faith, and thy endurance, and thy works -- and the last are more than the first.

'As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;

and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life -- unto death;